{"id":368,"date":"2021-09-30T09:20:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T09:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentconsultants.com.au\/?p=368"},"modified":"2025-04-15T23:40:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T13:40:30","slug":"regional-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentconsultants.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/09\/30\/regional-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"368\" class=\"elementor elementor-368\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68bfb665 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"68bfb665\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-258ca49c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"258ca49c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<h1><b>Regional areas<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government of Australia designated a number of areas as Regional Areas for immigration purposes. They are located near bigger cities in Australia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further, there are two categories of these regional areas that offer different benefits or incentives for skilled migrants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following are the two categories<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Category\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Major incentives are associated, eg. priority visa application processing, more jobs in the eligibility table as compared to non-regional cities. The international students who have completed their graduate and higher education, are eligible for one extra year on their post-study work visa in Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">List of category two\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perth<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adelaide<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gold Coast<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sunshine Coast<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Canberra<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Newcastle\/Lake Macquarie<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wollongong\/Illawarra<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Geelong<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hobart<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Category 3<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They have a priority in negotiating region-specific Designated Area Migration Agreements (DAMAs) and will have an additional 2 years work visa after completing their graduate and a higher degree from a regional campus of a registered institute. Priority visa application processing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">City and regional centres can be found under the Regional Areas postcode list. The above list, information is taken from the Government of <a href=\"https:\/\/immi.homeaffairs.gov.au\/visas\/working-in-australia\/regional-migration\/eligible-regional-areas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Home Affairs<\/a> website.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore the top regional areas in Australia for international students to study. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,44,46],"tags":[50,51],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration","category-resources","category-study","tag-immigration","tag-study-in-regional-areas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentconsultants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentconsultants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentconsultants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentconsultants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentconsultants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/studentconsultants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2642,"href":"https:\/\/studentconsultants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/2642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentconsultants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentconsultants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentconsultants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentconsultants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}